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by Boccaccio, Giovanni

Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited

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Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy, that'll have the markings and stickers associated from the library. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.

Description
In the early summer of the year 1348, as a terrible plague ravages the city, ten charming young Florentines take refuge in country villas to tell each other stories - a hundred stories of love, adventure and surprising twists of fortune which later inspired Chaucer, Keats and Shakespeare. While Dante is a stern moralist, Boccaccio has little time for chastity, pokes fun at crafty, hypocritical clerics and celebrates the power of passion to overcome obstacles and social divisions. Like the Divine Comedy, the Decameron is a towering monument of medieval pre-Renaissance literature, and incorporates certain important elements that are not at once apparent to today's readers. In a new introduction to this revised edition, which also includes additional explanatory notes, maps, bibliography and indexes, Professor McWilliam shows us Boccaccio for what he is - one of the world's greatest masters of vivid and exciting prose fiction.

Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited

[...]

Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy, that'll have the markings and stickers associated from the library. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.

Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited

[...]

Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy, that'll have the markings and stickers associated from the library. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.

Connecting readers with great books since 1972. Used books may not include

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Connecting readers with great books since 1972. Used books may not include companion materials, some shelf wear, may contain highlighting/notes, and may not include cd-rom or access codes. Customer service is our top priority!

Connecting readers with great books since 1972. Used books may not include

[...]

Connecting readers with great books since 1972. Used books may not include companion materials, some shelf wear, may contain highlighting/notes, and may not include cd-rom or access codes. Customer service is our top priority!

Connecting readers with great books since 1972. Used books may not include

[...]

Connecting readers with great books since 1972. Used books may not include companion materials, some shelf wear, may contain highlighting/notes, and may not include cd-rom or access codes. Customer service is our top priority!

Connecting readers with great books since 1972. Used books may not include

[...]

Connecting readers with great books since 1972. Used books may not include companion materials, some shelf wear, may contain highlighting/notes, and may not include cd-rom or access codes. Customer service is our top priority!

Connecting readers with great books since 1972. Used books may not include

[...]

Connecting readers with great books since 1972. Used books may not include companion materials, some shelf wear, may contain highlighting/notes, may not include cd-om or access codes. Customer service is our top priority!

Connecting readers with great books since 1972. Used books may not include

[...]

Connecting readers with great books since 1972. Used books may not include companion materials, some shelf wear, may contain highlighting/notes, and may not include cd-rom or access codes. Customer service is our top priority!

Connecting readers with great books since 1972. Used books may not include

[...]

Connecting readers with great books since 1972. Used books may not include companion materials, some shelf wear, may contain highlighting/notes, and may not include cd-rom or access codes. Customer service is our top priority!

Connecting readers with great books since 1972. Used books may not include

[...]

Connecting readers with great books since 1972. Used books may not include companion materials, some shelf wear, may contain highlighting/notes, and may not include cd-rom or access codes. Customer service is our top priority!

Size: 8vo-over 7Â¾"-9Â¾" tall; Trade Paperback in Good Condition. Translated with a new Introduction and Notes by G. H. McWilliam. The cover shows an illumination by Taddeo Crivellii from The Decameron manuscript. Cover is clean, with creases, binding is tight and solid, internals are clean and unmsrked, lightly toned. The Decameron-Boccaccio's own "human comedy", a bawdy and entertaining epic of Fourteenth century Florence, Italy. A hundred stories in ten days told by seven ladies and three young men during the time of the Black Death, in Italy. Many of these stories became famous and influential in Eurpoean Literature.